But, oddly, Hitler during the 30s seemed like a brilliant strategist. I wonder what happened. One problem was obviously that the other Nazis were either quite insane, like Himmler, or opportunists like Goring.
I suspect the original plan was brilliant, yet somehow Hitler lost track of it. What Hitler really wanted was an ethnically pure Greater Germany. He wanted Poland and a big chunk of European Russia.
And he had it. He had Poland and a big chunk of Russia. He could have easily traded France for some sort of peace with the west. And Stalin would have made a deal with Hitler, he did before.
And what is weird is that during the 30's, Hitler was an expert in those sort of deals. He got Czechoslovakia just by making a deal with the West. And that's the way Hitler thought. He wasn't a total wars kind of guy. He was the kind of guy who could make his enemies give him control of Germany. Hitler lived to exploit his enemies weaknesses.
Dude, it looked pretty bad before Obama became president. Remember McCain screaming for war with Russia because of their war with one of Israel's clients, Georgia?
I still think the nation/state is done with. And we're going to have to find a new economic system. But honestly, now that we don't have a president calling for endless war, things are looking a lot better.
I've thought about that a lot. WWI was kind of a mass suicide by the European upper classes. At the beginning of the 1900s people really thought history had more or less ended. They had, after all, discovered the perfect form of government, the parlamantary monarchy.
By the end of the war pretty much the only monarchy left standing was the English King, and he was now powerless.
Well, a modern economy is very complex. You can spend all day figuring out these little theories where changing one little thing has a domino affect and it all goes to hell.
But that's why we have a free market. A free market adapts. You take away the cheap oil, and people buy something else.
Of course not. People have always thought the world was about to end. In fact, tho, we are living thru the most prosperous and peaceful time in world history.
Look guys, you're being awfully gullible. These reality shows are always scripted, they have to be, there's too much money at stake. And a guy who founded a successful chain with hundreds of locations doesn't make a mistake like this.
Americans are obsessed with the idea that their cooking is so good they could get rich from it. Yet it's not even possible for a great chief to found a restaurant chain based on his recipes. A great chief, by definition, can cook better than other chiefs. That means that what he does can't be duplicated easily.
Plus, chiefs are almost all flakes.
Gordon Ramsey has been running this scam for years. Nobody that wins in Hells Kitchens ever gets a master chief job. At the most they work for him for a few months before flaking out. There was one season where a girl won who nobody thought was that good a cook. But she was the only person in the competition who wasn't a complete flake. She got something like an assistant manager job.
The Chipotle founder spent 2.3 million, got millions of dollars in advertising by being on the show, and three prime resturant locations. He got exactly what they all agreed on.
It's really hard to win a lawsuit against teh police. And if you do, the cops will learn where your family live, even cousins, and they'll be cops stationed near the houses pulling over everyone who leaves.
Well, you might be cutting off some heads if a foreign colonial power moved in, destroyed your house because of a zoning violation, and now wants you to pay for it.
"Since 1967, Israeli forces have demolished 24,813 Palestinian homes. 90% of these homes were destroyed for 'administrative' reasons – because they either lacked a permit or were in an area designated for expansion by the Israeli military. No permits have been issued by Israeli authorities for Palestinian construction in the Occupied Territories since 1967. The remaining 10% of the demolitions have been 'punitive' demolitions of the homes of Palestinians accused of attacking Israel, or of their families' homes."
You know, that's what I love about Catholics. They are so open minded on this stuff.
This stuff is really weird tho. The Dutch originated the Enlightenment, of course. They rebelled against Spain and the Catholic church, and the Pope ordered them destroyed.
But that's not how the Catholics hear it. A Catholic, it seems, is brought up to believe the Dutch were peaceful subjects of Spain, and learned all about human rights from the great Jesuit philosophers, which they then passed on to all the savage Protestant nations.
